There is indeed a Malta Decorative Glass Co. Ltd. registered in Malta as of 2000/1 according to the Maltese National Audit office but that doesn't get us very far.Its most likely the formal company name for one of the makers we already know about .....but which one ?I have emailed the Malta Dept of Inormation

Unhelpful reply from Malta Dept of Inormation.....it seems they haven't got any !! Just a ref to another Malta Gov't Dept.

Hello, Have a look at the page from the Glass Cone on Mdina that Patrick Hogan put up for me in the thread on the Boffo penguin. (Scroll down a bit for the Mdina article, there's a mention of Malta Decorative Arts at the bottom - it would appear to be a Chinese venture.)

I'm sure it's ok to quote it to save looking it up every time eventhough the whole (short) article is a very interesting read.

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Malta Decorative Glass Co. The glass factory only proved to be a show place. Mr Boffo was seconded to work there and train boys or leave Malta and he worked for the government for as long as it survived. It was the end of his glass-making days – very sad.

Article A brief history of M’dina & some other contemporaneous Maltese art glass firmsby Michael Thomas Vaughan in Glass news #13 June 2003Published by THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE HISTORY OF GLASS LIMITEDwww.historyofglass.org.ukbased on information received from Mrs Elizabeth Harris, Director of Isle of Wight Glass

Thank you Sue for that wonderful link. Of course we can blame Peter for all this, he did teach me about Mdina and Maltese glass, but I do have a nice collection of Mdina and one piece of Gozo and now the Whale which seems to fit in with the history of glass on Malta. It will be interesting if we can discover the exact years for it. Of course what is confusing to me is the Boffo connection and of course the fact that in my opening post I said that on first sight I thought Chinese and apparently there is a chinese connection. Ah confusion Terry